On the weekend when the tenth anniversary of Wayne Rooney first etching his
name on football’s consciousness was commemorated, the temptation was to
think “remember the name” when Raheem Sterling followed in his footsteps by
scoring a decisive goal at a prodigiously young age.

Brendan Rodgers, though, would prefer that instead of burdening Sterling with
star status before he is best able to handle it, the 17-year-old be allowed
to fulfil his potential without being weighed down by expectation and
over-exposure.

The problem is that talent sometimes waits for no one and when Sterling scored
the goal against Reading that